Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions was 0.0637 Index in 2025. ▼ Falling
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions in Sierra Leone, 2014–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.
Analysis
Sierra Leone recorded 0.0637 Index for digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in 2025. That is the lowest value across all 12 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 40.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in Sierra Leone peaked at 0.1062 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.0637 Index, in 2020.
That places Sierra Leone 6th out of 109 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 12 years of available data.
Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions in Sierra Leone, year by year
| Year | Index | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.1062 Index | — |
| 2015 | 0.1062 Index | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.1062 Index | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.1062 Index | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.1062 Index | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.0849 Index | -20.0% |
| 2020 | 0.0637 Index | -25.0% |
| 2021 | 0.0637 Index | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.0637 Index | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.0637 Index | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.0637 Index | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.0637 Index | +0.0% |
Sierra Leone compared with similar countries
- Sierra Leone's 0.0637 Index is above the median for low income countries, which is 0.0425 Index, 1.5× the median. (18 countries reporting)
- Sierra Leone's 0.0637 Index is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 0.0425 Index, 1.5× the median. (39 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.1026 Index | 0.0849 Index | 0.1062 Index | 6 |
| 2020s | 0.0637 Index | 0.0637 Index | 0.0637 Index | 6 |
Countries ranked near Sierra Leone
- 3 Angola 0.0849 Index compare
- 3 Eswatini 0.0425 Index compare
- 3 Somalia 0.0849 Index compare
- 3 South Sudan 0.0849 Index compare
- 3 Equatorial Guinea 0.0425 Index compare
- 3 Madagascar 0.0425 Index compare
- 3 Latvia 0.0425 Index compare
- 3 Lithuania 0.0425 Index compare
- 3 Netherlands 0.0425 Index compare
- 3 Türkiye 0.0425 Index compare
- 6 Libya 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Tanzania 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Comoros 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Liberia 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Botswana 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Burundi 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Djibouti 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Mauritius 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0637 Index compare
- 6 Tunisia 0.0637 Index compare
More economy & growth data for Sierra Leone
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 2.55 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 4.53 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate -18.54 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0324 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 27.41 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate -22.43 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0.0236 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 20.01 units per person (2025)
- IMF holdings of currency, US dollar, annual growth rate 5.01 % change on previous year (2025)
- IMF holdings of currency, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0381 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in Sierra Leone?
- Digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in Sierra Leone was 0.0637 Index in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The highest recorded value was 0.1062 Index in 2014.
- What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0637 Index in 2020.
- How does Sierra Leone rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions?
- Sierra Leone ranks 6th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
- Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions rising or falling in Sierra Leone?
- Over the last ten years it is down 40.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Sierra Leone data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The OECD Digital STRI identifies, catalogues and quantifies barriers that affect trade in digitally enabled services across 129 countries. It provides policy makers with an evidence-based tool that helps to identify regulatory bottlenecks, design policies that foster more competitive and diversified markets for digital trade, and analyze the impact of policy reforms. The OECD Digital STRI captures cross-cutting impediments that affect all types of services traded digitally. As a stand-alone instrument, it complements the OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI). A zip file containing the OECD Digital STRI indices for all countries available over 2014-2025 can be downloaded here: OECD Digital STRI 2014-2025